The specific causes were respiratory, a seizure, a bowel impaction and an infection at the base of a young woman’s feeding tube. The suspicion, acute enough to spark an investigation by the Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities (a federally funded watchdog agency), is that the deaths were engendered by cutbacks at the state Agency for Persons with Disabilities.

These were people whose disabilities required considerable care looked after by an agency that has figured how to save millions lately by increasing the caseload of care-givers.

So where is their concern for these lost souls? Where is their protests for these abandoned lives? Why are they not concerned for the ones dieing because of cutbacks?

The answer lies in money. They are concerned with you as long as you have money and are white. If you are poor, you will be ignored. If you are black, not only will you be ignored, but also you will be looked down upon, when they do pay attention to you.

“You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.”
Tyler Durden

Unfortunately, he was naively mistaken. You are these things because we live in a society and the society sets the norms and they believe you are these things.

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I’m still amazed that Bush took off from his “vacation” to fly to Washington for signing legislation on that case, yet gave a few measly condolences on his radio show to those affected by the school shooting in Minnesota. And how many days did the man wait to comment on that? Nevermind the fact that people are dying like crazy because of this war.